Contents
- 1. Our favorite songs are directly related to bright events in life.
- 2. Music influences emotions and how we perceive the world
- 3. If you convince yourself that you got enough sleep, the brain will believe
- 4. If you talk about your plans and goals, it is more difficult to achieve them.
- 5 Modern Students Are More Anxious Than 1950s Psychiatric Patients
- 6. When we think about an event from the past, we reproduce the last memory of it
- 7. Being surrounded by happy people can make you happier too.
- 8. Most stressful years – 18 to 33 years old
Every day we fall into the traps that our brain sets up for us, and sometimes we fool it ourselves. How does this happen and why is it important to monitor what kind of music we listen to, with whom we communicate and what we say?
Yet how little we know about ourselves. Our brain and we, along with it, are constantly influenced by external factors. Here are a few phenomena that each of us has experienced.
Yes Yes! It’s not about your musical preferences at all. It’s not your tastes that tell you whether you like a song or not, but your personal story. That’s why sometimes you might like a song that doesn’t seem to suit your style at all.
2. Music influences emotions and how we perceive the world
Filmmakers use this: they heighten emotion by using tense music in horror movie scenes, melancholy music in sad drama movies, dynamic music in funny comedy scenes. Depending on what melody you listen to, sad or cheerful, your mood also changes.
Love for sad melodies leads to the habit of seeing everything from the bad side and noticing only the unfortunate people around. While listening to joyful and energetic songs will make you feel more positive and smile more often.
3. If you convince yourself that you got enough sleep, the brain will believe
This is the so-called placebo effect. According to research, it really works.
You can trick your brain into thinking you’ve had enough sleep, with just four hours of sleep, for example, and you’ll be full of energy all day until you feel a bit tired. The slightest reminder to the brain of lack of sleep will increase fatigue at times.
4. If you talk about your plans and goals, it is more difficult to achieve them.
This is the same as when they say that if you talk about your desires, they will not come true. When you talk about plans and goals, you already experience some pleasure, because of which you do not make much effort to implement plans. This reduces the chances of reaching the goal.
Of course, this does not apply to everyone, but only to a certain type of people.
5 Modern Students Are More Anxious Than 1950s Psychiatric Patients
Difficulties in getting a job, social pressure, high expectations, love troubles and everyday problems put the psyche of students under more stress than former patients of clinics experienced.
6. When we think about an event from the past, we reproduce the last memory of it
Got it? Re-read… We only remember the first time something really happened.
When we remember this for the second and subsequent times, we try to recall the last thoughts about that event that came to mind. So it is much easier for the brain to build a chain of events in the past.
7. Being surrounded by happy people can make you happier too.
Sadness is sometimes contagious, stress too, but the same can be said for happiness. When we communicate with a happy person, the mood becomes better. And according to various observations, a happy person dramatically reduces the risk of chronic diseases. You develop a habit of seeing the positive side in any situation, you share happiness with others and think less about the bad.
8. Most stressful years – 18 to 33 years old
For many people, the most stressful periods of life are not in primary and secondary school. It is in the period from 18 to 33 that we enter a new life and learn to adapt to it: we go to university, get a profession, enter the labor market, where everything is not always easy, especially among young professionals, we buy an apartment, a car, start a family … Well, we wish you courage in this difficult period of life.